Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.